Thanks, Nathan.. this is enlightening, and I'll pass it on to the
sysadmins involved.  They seem to have work to do, but are trying. It's a
local non-profit, so we're trying to help.

1.8e is starting to sound like the Holy Grail... anti-virus, more
filtering, all sorts of neat stuff.  I know you guys never pre-announce,
but I hope we see it soon.

Jean Snow

On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Nathan Brindle wrote:

> This can happen if the message passes through an Interscan Viruswall
> before leaving the user's domain.  The Viruswall wraps the entire message
> in a MIME wrapper that LISTSERV can't see into, so you get the "no command
> was found" error.  That may not be the only case where this can happen
> but it's one I've seen recently and have been able to duplicate.  Typically
> the problem is found with MIME multi-parts that have been wrapped in the
> Interscan wrapper.  LISTSERV's MIME parser can't parse the original MIME
> parts out of the wrapper and that is where the problem arises.
>
> (FWIW this particular problem has been solved for 1.8e.)
>
> On the other hand--why was the user's vacation program sending the mail
> back to LISTSERV and not to one of the owner- mailboxes (which would be
> referenced in the RFC821 MAIL FROM: header) like it is supposed to do? :)
>
> Nathan
>